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Comparison 🔎 Drinking Mountain Dew instead of coffee

The Terminator

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I have begun to substitute Zero Sugar MTN Dew (Do the Dew!!) instead of drinking energy drinks and coffe/tea. Two cans of DmtnD are 68 mg caffeine, so two cans of the Dew are 136 MG of Caf, more than a Celsius (120 mg) and a small red bull (80 mg)

I switch off between Baja Blast and regular flavour.

Do you do the Dew?
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Only if out for fast food. Sodas are really not good for you and there are health benefits to coffee.
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But its the ZERO SUGAR zero calorie version im talking about eh, it supposedly has no calories and is sweetned with sucralose and other kinds of sugar analogs. It has about 25~ mg more caffeine than the sugared 280 calorie version of Mountain Dew
 
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I have never been a coffee drinker even though both my parents drank coffee from sunup to sundown. Here in the office we have a fridge that is stocked with Diet Mt. Dew and other sodas and they are free. So I was drinking way too much of it and Coke Zero. I totally gave it up about 5 weeks ago and I feel much better. I had headaches for about 2 days but since then I don't really miss it very much at all.
 
Both parents drank coffee all day every day. Dad actually said he didn't know how I would graduate from college & not drink coffee (I drank Pepsi instead).

Switched over to diet MtnDew for a long time, drinking 3 or 4 20 ozers a day or more. Stopped that probably 5 years ago and now I drink 1/2&1/2 tea (regular tea - sweet tea - is diabetic coma inducing drink in the south).
 
[Ron Swanson]
I don't drink soda unless it is mixed with liquor.

It is dark roast black coffee until lunch... just like God intended it to be.
[/Ron Swanson]
 
I used to love Mountain Dew but I cannot do the Dew anymore... unless I'm eating Taco Bell. For some reason, if I get Taco Bell, I have to have Mountain Dew; even better if they have the Mountain Dew Baja Blast slush drink. But I only go to Taco Bell once every few years so it's not often.

The last time I tried a can or bottle of Mountain Dew I think I drank about a quarter of it before throwing it away. I cannot get past the chemical taste anymore. When I was like 18 and 19, my typical Friday night would be sitting in my barracks with a case of Mountain Dew, a giant bag of Doritos, a cheesesteak sandwich and playing Golden Eye on the Nintendo64 all night long!

Planit said:
Both parents drank coffee all day every day. Dad actually said he didn't know how I would graduate from college & not drink coffee (I drank Pepsi instead).

Switched over to diet MtnDew for a long time, drinking 3 or 4 20 ozers a day or more. Stopped that probably 5 years ago and now I drink 1/2&1/2 tea (regular tea - sweet tea - is diabetic coma inducing drink in the south).
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My parents are the same way: As long as I can remember there was a fresh pot of coffee on the counter all day every day. My mom is in her early 80s and my dad is close to 90 and they still go through a few pots of coffee a day (always black). A couple years ago I signed them up for a coffee delivery service where they get coffee beans from all over the world a few times each month and my mom always calls me up with a report on how good a particular delivery was or wasn't. My parents are very easy going people but they will judge you harshly if they show up at your house and you haven't offered them coffee within the first 2 minutes of them coming through the door.

Even though they drank so much coffee when we were growing up, I don't think any of my brothers or sisters really took it up like they did. I remember coming home on leave from the Marines and my dad being surprised that I wasn't just guzzling down coffee. He said that when he was in the service decades earlier, coffee was like the lifeblood of the troops!

These days, I like to walk to Starbucks early in the morning once or twice a week to buy an iced coffee and nurse it throughout the day. When I remember to buy my own beans, I'll also brew my own. When it's colder out, I will occasionally use the Keurig to make myself a cup of hot coffee but I load that up with sugar and cream.

I don't think either of my brothers drink coffee and one of my sisters likes the occasional frappuccino, but that's about it.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I used to love Mountain Dew but I cannot do the Dew anymore... unless I'm eating Taco Bell. For some reason, if I get Taco Bell, I have to have Mountain Dew; even better if they have the Mountain Dew Baja Blast slush drink. But I only go to Taco Bell once every few years so it's not often.

The last time I tried a can or bottle of Mountain Dew I think I drank about a quarter of it before throwing it away. I cannot get past the chemical taste anymore. When I was like 18 and 19, my typical Friday night would be sitting in my barracks with a case of Mountain Dew, a giant bag of Doritos, a cheesesteak sandwich and playing Golden Eye on the Nintendo64 all night long!
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Of course being in the unique position that in addition to having a 19 year old's metabolism, during the course of your regular duties and training, you burn all those Dew calories off! Did officers ever come and try and steal the grunts Dew and N64?
 
The Terminator said:
Of course being in the unique position that in addition to having a 19 year old's metabolism, during the course of your regular duties and training, you burn all those Dew calories off! Did officers ever come and try and steal the grunts Dew and N64?
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Officers in the barracks? Hell no!

The only reason an officer would be in the barracks, beyond maybe stopping by the duty desk for 30 seconds on a Saturday afternoon, was if somebody was getting arrested.

This wasn't the Air Force - there is roughly 0 fraternization between the officers and enlisted ranks in the Marines.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Officers in the barracks? Hell no!

The only reason an officer would be in the barracks, beyond maybe stopping by the duty desk for 30 seconds on a Saturday afternoon, was if somebody was getting arrested.

This wasn't the Air Force - there is roughly 0 fraternization between the officers and enlisted ranks in the Marines.
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So, I've always wondered...did you, or any other vets, experience this?

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Nope. What is this? 1950's Marine Corp? We did have an open shower like high school gym and no doors on the stalls.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
So, I've always wondered...did you, or any other vets, experience this?

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Looks exactly like our squadbay at Parris Island that I arrived at 28 years ago yesterday. I count 11 latrines in that picture, and I learned that that's enough for 33 Maines to use at a time! That was some culture shock, even after growing up in a house with 1 bathroom for 8 of us!

FWIW, I was down at Parris Island a few years ago to see my nephew graduate from boot camp and he was in a brand new squad bay... still with toilets without individual stalls and a big wide open shower... aka the Rain Room!
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
So, I've always wondered...did you, or any other vets, experience this?

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Yes. Except there were no troughs. Just toilets. Little known fact: in Marine boot camp (at least MCRD San Diego in the early 1980s), every minute of every day is allocated for some purpose. There is literally NO TIME allocated for potty breaks, so this time necessarily comes at the expense of something else. Therefore, drill instructors might 'humanely' allocate 60 seconds for an entire platoon of 70 guys to pee and get back in formation. There were 12 toilets in our squadbay. Do the math....that's about six guys pissing into a single toilet at the same time. That also meant there were lots of "misses" that recruits had to clean up during 'field days'. True.
 
Maister said:
Yes. Except there were no troughs. Just toilets. Little known fact: in Marine boot camp (at least MCRD San Diego in the early 1980s), every minute of every day is allocated for some purpose. There is literally NO TIME allocated for potty breaks, so this time necessarily comes at the expense of something else. Therefore, drill instructors might 'humanely' allocate 60 seconds for an entire platoon of 70 guys to pee and get back in formation. There were 12 toilets in our squadbay. Do the math....that's about six guys pissing into a single toilet at the same time. That also meant there were lots of "misses" that recruits had to clean up during 'field days'. True.
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For a few years there was another Marine who worked in my office who was maybe a decade older than me but we shared basically the same warped sense of humor. If we were in a conference or large group meeting or something at the office where everybody would take a break at the same time and we walked into the bathroom only to see a line, we used to like to act like we were about to double up at one of the urinals. Stupid and juvenile, yes, but it still always made us laugh to see our coworkers' reactions.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
For a few years there was another Marine who worked in my office who was maybe a decade older than me but we shared basically the same warped sense of humor. If we were in a conference or large group meeting or something at the office where everybody would take a break at the same time and we walked into the bathroom only to see a line, we used to like to act like we were about to double up at one of the urinals. Stupid and juvenile, yes, but it still always made us laugh to see our coworkers' reactions.
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Maister said:
Yes. Except there were no troughs. Just toilets. Little known fact: in Marine boot camp (at least MCRD San Diego in the early 1980s), every minute of every day is allocated for some purpose. There is literally NO TIME allocated for potty breaks, so this time necessarily comes at the expense of something else. Therefore, drill instructors might 'humanely' allocate 60 seconds for an entire platoon of 70 guys to pee and get back in formation. There were 12 toilets in our squadbay. Do the math....that's about six guys pissing into a single toilet at the same time. That also meant there were lots of "misses" that recruits had to clean up during 'field days'. True.
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Definitely no time for Mountain Dew when all you get is 60 seconds to do ones business.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Looks exactly like our squadbay at Parris Island that I arrived at 28 years ago yesterday. I count 11 latrines in that picture, and I learned that that's enough for 33 Maines to use at a time! That was some culture shock, even after growing up in a house with 1 bathroom for 8 of us!

FWIW, I was down at Parris Island a few years ago to see my nephew graduate from boot camp and he was in a brand new squad bay... still with toilets without individual stalls and a big wide open shower... aka the Rain Room!
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Maister said:
Yes. Except there were no troughs. Just toilets. Little known fact: in Marine boot camp (at least MCRD San Diego in the early 1980s), every minute of every day is allocated for some purpose. There is literally NO TIME allocated for potty breaks, so this time necessarily comes at the expense of something else. Therefore, drill instructors might 'humanely' allocate 60 seconds for an entire platoon of 70 guys to pee and get back in formation. There were 12 toilets in our squadbay. Do the math....that's about six guys pissing into a single toilet at the same time. That also meant there were lots of "misses" that recruits had to clean up during 'field days'. True.
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Can't imagine dropping a deuce next to your buddy.
 
Bump.

So the Mountain Dew thing instead of coffee was not a successful experiment. At the point in the day where I would have my 3rd or 4th Mountain Dew (12 oz cans), I would develop these horrible stomach and muscle cramps. I reduced the Dew intake and they stopped.

Keeping it to one Mtn Dew Zero in the AM, and have switched to Black Tea for any further caffeine intake.
 
Shame, real cats are drinking mountain dew fresh off the grasses under the wild, open sky. They're out there taking a crisp lick straight from the sedges, right off the rushes. You're sweating a few cramping muscles, but buck up man - if you can't handle a sip from heaven's own drinking fountain it's not gonna be a successful hunt. You're talking AM like you don't mean "a little before noon"...buddy, I've been up prowling and back to bed by then. I'm straight cathemeral. You're saying 3-4 cans, but I'm hearing 3-4 can'ts. I'm jacked up on mountain dew screaming in the hollers while you're hunting for BEANS like prey.

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joscoffee said:
Shame, real cats are drinking mountain dew fresh off the grasses under the wild, open sky. They're out there taking a crisp lick straight from the sedges, right off the rushes. You're sweating a few cramping muscles, but buck up man - if you can't handle a sip from heaven's own drinking fountain it's not gonna be a successful hunt. You're talking AM like you don't mean "a little before noon"...buddy, I've been up prowling and back to bed by then. I'm straight cathemeral. You're saying 3-4 cans, but I'm hearing 3-4 can'ts. I'm jacked up on mountain dew screaming in the hollers while you're hunting for BEANS like prey.

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joscoffee said:
Shame, real cats are drinking mountain dew fresh off the grasses under the wild, open sky. They're out there taking a crisp lick straight from the sedges, right off the rushes. You're sweating a few cramping muscles, but buck up man - if you can't handle a sip from heaven's own drinking fountain it's not gonna be a successful hunt. You're talking AM like you don't mean "a little before noon"...buddy, I've been up prowling and back to bed by then. I'm straight cathemeral. You're saying 3-4 cans, but I'm hearing 3-4 can'ts. I'm jacked up on mountain dew screaming in the hollers while you're hunting for BEANS like prey.

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This made me purrrrrrrrrrr !!

Mountain Dew..........its got what cats crave!!
 
The rare case I get a migraine, maybe once every five years, I will slam an ice cold regular Mountain Dew to knock it out.

My oldest kid as obsessed with Baja Blast though.
 
zman said:
The rare case I get a migraine, maybe once every five years, I will slam an ice cold regular Mountain Dew to knock it out.

My oldest kid as obsessed with Baja Blast though.
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Baja Blast Midnight is the latest "Taco Bell ONLY" offering. I'm not going to kid you, it's awesome. It makes me feel like I'm 18 again...for about 45 minutes, then suddenly I feel like I'm 89 and I want to be ended comfortably in my sleep. So naturally every time my two degenerate sons go to Taco Bell I ask them to pick one up for me. I'm complicated.
 
I generally don't drink it as a morning wake me up. I have coffee with ample added sugar.

But I'll drink a small can (7.5 oz) Dew with lunch or dinner often. Nice.
 
Did you know.....you can shake a can of Mountain Dew and won't explode when you open it? TRUE.

 
The Terminator said:
Bump.

So the Mountain Dew thing instead of coffee was not a successful experiment. At the point in the day where I would have my 3rd or 4th Mountain Dew (12 oz cans), I would develop these horrible stomach and muscle cramps. I reduced the Dew intake and they stopped.

Keeping it to one Mtn Dew Zero in the AM, and have switched to Black Tea for any further caffeine intake.
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Four regular Mtn Dews is probably tough on a body. That would be 680 calories and184 gram of sugar (368 % of daily recommended amount) but only 208 mg of caffeine (about 2 cups of coffee). Not too bad if you're doing zero or diet.

ursus said:
Baja Blast Midnight is the latest "Taco Bell ONLY" offering. I'm not going to kid you, it's awesome. It makes me feel like I'm 18 again...for about 45 minutes, then suddenly I feel like I'm 89 and I want to be ended comfortably in my sleep. So naturally every time my two degenerate sons go to Taco Bell I ask them to pick one up for me. I'm complicated.
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Now that Taco Bell has the millennium menu items back up, that's a good combo. I used to love some late night chili cheese burritos. I'm sure they would not sit as well 25 years later.
 
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